TDGE 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ingrid Pitt, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor
Document Summary
Based on screenplay written by colin higgins and published as a novel in 1971. Older man who has money but this one is a old woman. Performance art reasonably compatible dates pretend to commit suicide while he"s on these dates. Reversal maude is happier while harold does not smile. Ruth gordon as spry optimistic and smile is nature. Younger lover as the gradly rich one. Maude only sees the fullness of life. Oedipal complex they have dry humor and met at a funeral. Mrs. chasen harold"s awful mother materialistic agenda. Harold"s uncle victor (missing a limb) misguided portrait of american manhood. Removed romantic silhouette of prince harold remains isolated, pathological and aloof. Maude buys him a banjo freeing of city tree = change. Edith had acting experience and gets harold. Death by hanging high school suicide became pandemic in 1980s and. Maude had committed suicide instead of harold even tho the prediction was that harold will die.
